certainly not in a celebratory mood

today i'm tired, have zero patience and am certainly not in a celebratory mood
after two years!!! of far too much ink wasted, in my humble opinion, on an electoral process that started well before the actual campaign, we will have months on celebratory mood due to the results
it is not by any means that i do not prefer the result, but i find it sad, cynical and quite depressing that even people who are supposed to care about other countries or even subject matters, have had their mouths full of what should be the normal democratic process inside one country, and has had very little time to find out more, discuss and push for other subjects, that, also in my humble opinion, also matter
i guess the bad news on the financial crisis, recesion, unemployment, not to mention oil and food prices, conflict, torture and all the rest could take a back sit for the good news elsewhere.....but the amount of time and energy wasted.....two years!! it's simply too much

today i'm tired, have zero patience and am certainly not in a celebratory mood, and maybe precisely because of it, on the one hand i can agree that this is a historic moment in the sense that in country that brags about democracy nobody apart from white men had ever ruled
on the other it's a rather, let's say, late achievement, taking into account the number of presidents that have been elected; by electing an elite it's not like you make the country less discriminatory, racist or sexist (although i recognise that it's certainly a step in the right direction); i guess what really bothers me is that other countries did it well before, many in latin america, others in africa and asia, and only a couple of lines were dropped about it

today i'm tired, have zero patience and am certainly not in a celebratory mood, not when, being neighbours with some key countries around, not a single good news is coming out from round the corner
so i shall continue with congo, the coincidence that Kinshasha signs a deal with the Chinese (far more favourable than those European were proposing to the government) and after some years of respite, the conflict starts again; of the fact that congolese people want the MONUC out, not in, for they accuse them of being heavily involved in precisely that trafficking and seem to be aiding themselves more than they help the people they are supposed to protect; that everybody who lives in the area knows this, but cannot be put in black and white

today i'm tired, have zero patience and am certainly not in a celebratory mood.